How to remove autocomplete functionality from exposed filters for tags [#1893594]

Couldn't locate a solution. If the taxonomy if free tagging, is there an option to have exposed filter for tag without autocomplete
feature ?

My concern is, when number of tags becomes exponentially large, it may take considerably long time for the autocomplete
functionality within exposed filter search process... Anyone has real time experience on this possible problem of autocomplete
exposed tags..

thx

Comments

Comment #1

sbydrupal CreditAttribution: sbydrupal commented 23 January 2013 at 16:13

Any feedback ? Nobody has experience this question before ?

Comment #2

dawehner

German

CreditAttribution: dawehner commented 4 February 2013 at 10:37

Well, there are just a limited amount of people out there visiting the issue queue.

So what you could do is to implement a hook_form_alter (you will find tons of tutorials out there)
and remove the '#autocomplete_path' part of the textfield via unset($form['some_field']['#autocomplete_path']);

Comment #3

warmth CreditAttribution: warmth commented 1 March 2013 at 12:41

~~I'm having the same issue with usernames.~~ Forget it: #1930838: User exposed filter must be exact to find anything

Comment #4

betty66 CreditAttribution: betty66 commented 18 January 2016 at 21:55

Issue summary:

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In your custom module:

function yourcustommodule_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  if ($form_id == 'views_exposed_form') {
    $view = $form_state['view'];
    if ($view->name == 'your_view_machine_name' && $view->current_display == 'your_display_machine_name') {
      unset($form['your_field_machine_name']['#autocomplete_path']);
    }
  }
}